Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Jeremiah 51:34
Me — The prophet speaks this in the name of the Jews. Cast me out — As beasts of prey eat what they please of other beasts they have preyed upon, and leave the rest in the field.
Me — The prophet speaks this in the name of the Jews. Cast me out — As beasts of prey eat what they please of other beasts they have preyed upon, and leave the rest in the field.
Verse Jeremiah 51:34. _NEBUCHADREZZAR - HATH DEVOURED ME_] These are the words of Judea; he has taken away all my riches. _HE HATH CAST ME OUT._] He shall vomit all up; i.e., they shall be regained....
Literally, “Nebuchadrezzar ... hath devoured us, hath crushed us, he hath set as aside as an empty vessel, he hath swallowed as like a crocodile, he hath filled his maw with my delicacies Genesis 49:2...
CHAPTER S 50-51 BABYLON These two final Chapter s contain a great prophecy concerning Babylon, her overthrow and doom. The fifty-first chapter closes with the statement “thus far are the words of Jere...
JEREMIAH 50:1 TO JEREMIAH 51:58. BABYLON. This long and monotonous prophecy, which is without order or logical development of ideas, is largely a compilation from the prophetic writings of Jeremiah an...
ME. Here, and in Jeremiah 51:35, the Hebrew text reads "us"; but the margin, and some codices, with two early printed editions, read "me", which is followed by the Authorized Version....
_me_ mg. _us_, but "me" is best throughout the _v_. as in Jeremiah 51:35. Israel suddenly becomes the speaker. For the figure cp. Isaiah 27:1. _dragon_ The Heb. _Tannin_is lit. any great monster of ri...
NEBUCHADREZZAR—HATH CRUSHED ME— This is a pathetic description of the calamities brought upon the Jews by Nebuchadrezzar and his forces; who, after devouring the wealth, and laying waste the beauty of...
B. The Complaint of Israel and the Reply of the Lord Jeremiah 51:34-40 TRANSLATION (34) Nebuchadnezzar has devoured us, has crushed us, has set us down like an empty vessel. Like a monster he has dev...
Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath ca...
1-14. The end of Babylon arrives....
DRAGON] here, 'sea-monster.' DELICATES] dainties; here only used as a substantive in the Bible....
HE HATH MADE ME AN EMPTY VESSEL. — The pronouns in one form of the Hebrew text are most of them in the plural, “devoured _us,_ crushed _us,_ made _us._” The prophet speaks of himself and Israel as hav...
_אֲכָלַ֣נִי_† _הֲמָמַ֗נִי_† נְבוּכַדְרֶאצַּר֮ מֶ֣לֶךְ בָּבֶל֒ _הִצִּיגַ֨נִי֙_† כְּלִ֣י...
CHAPTER XXV BABYLON Jeremiah 50:1, Jeremiah 51:1 "Babylon is taken, Bel is confounded, Merodach is broken in pieces."- Jeremiah 50:2 THESE Chapter s present phenomena analogous to those of...
In the second movement of the prophecy which deals with Babylon's doom and Israel's responsibility, Jeremiah first repeated his declarations concerning the determination of Jehovah to bring about the...
Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon hath (t) devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicacies, he hat...
_Dragon, or huge fish, which swallows without chewing. Sion is here venting her complaint, Psalm cxxxvi. 8. (Calmet) --- She shews that Babylon is justly punished for her cruelty towards God's people....
Is not this command to the people of God, to go out of Babylon, the same as gospel precepts, 2 Corinthians 6:17; Revelation 18:4....
Here is mentioned the complaint of the chosen people, and this was done designedly by Jeremiah, in order that the Jews might feel assured that their miseries were not overlooked by God; for nothing ca...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 45 THROUGH 51. Chapter 45 gives us the prophecy with respect to Baruch, already mentioned. Chapter 46 and following Chapter s contain the prophecies against t...
NEBUCHADREZZAR THE KING OF BABYLON HATH DEVOURED ME,.... Or "us" w; everyone of us: these are the words of Zion and Jerusalem, as appears from Jeremiah 51:35; complaining of the injuries done them by...
Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, he hath swallowed me up like a dragon, he hath filled his belly with my delicates, he hath cas...
_Nebuchadrezzar hath devoured me_ Zion and Jerusalem, which are both expressed in the next verse, are the speakers here, and the words contain a pathetical description of the calamities brought upon t...
THE WORK OF THE SPOILERS...
Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, hath devoured me, he hath crushed me, he hath made me an empty vessel, discarding them like a useless dish, HE HATH SWALLOWED ME UP LIKE A DRAGON, like some monste...
1-58 The particulars of this prophecy are dispersed and interwoven, and the same things left and returned to again. Babylon is abundant in treasures, yet neither her waters nor her wealth shall secur...
The prophet speaketh this in the name of the Jews, complaining of the KING OF BABYLON as the author of all the miseries they had endured, which he expresseth by several phrases signifying the same thi...
Jeremiah 51:34 Nebuchadnezzar H5019 king H4428 Babylon H894 devoured H398 (H8804) crushed H2000 (H8804) made H3322
THE CRY OF JERUSALEM FOR VENGEANCE (JEREMIAH 51:34). In these two verses we have the words of ‘the inhabitants of Zion', the words of ‘Jerusalem' as they remind God of what Nebuchadrezzar, the king of...
CONTENTS: Prophecies against Babylon, continued. CHARACTERS: God, Jeremiah, Nebuchadrezzar, Seraiah. CONCLUSION: Let no nation think it will exempt them from God's judgment that they have been execu...
Jeremiah 51:7. _Babylon is a golden cup in the hands of Jehovah._ All the captives and allies are intoxicated with it. All nations bow to her idols, submit to her power, wonder at her riches, applaud...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 51:34 LIKE A MONSTER. Though NEBUCHADNEZZAR was sent by God against JERUSALEM ...
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—For _Chronological Notes,_ see foregoing chapter. GEOGRAPHICAL REFERENCES.— Jeremiah 51:27. “_The kingdoms of Ararat, Minni, and Ashchenas_.” These nations of Western As...
EXPOSITION JEREMIAH 51:1 AGAINST THEM THAT DWELL IN THE MIDST OF THEM THAT RISE UP AGAINST ME. The Hebrew has _lēb-kāmai_, which is _Kasdim_, or _Chaldea, _written in the cypher called Athbash (see...
Amos 8:4; Ezekiel 36:3; Isaiah 24:1; Isaiah 34:11; Jeremiah 39:1;...